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The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Do you know ... ? for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Look at the dictionary extract from the Longman Active Study Dictionary. What does it tell you about each of the following: grammar, pronunciation and meaning?
  2. Complete the dictionary extracts by writing a definition for each one.
  3. Now compare your definitions with the definitions in a dictionary.
  4. Add the words / phrases above to the word maps in exercise 3a.

Answer

a)

  • grammar → 3 syllables; the stressed syllable -sen; adjective; noun
  • pronunciation → sensubul
  • meaning → having or using good judgment based on reason and experience rather than emotion

b) - c)

  1. leave one's job and cease to work typically on reaching the normal age for leaving service
  2. in or to a foreign country / countries
  3. have a friendly relationship with someone
  4. a playing field on which the game of football if played

d)

  1. work
  2. holidays
  3. people
  4. sports and fitness